Big Turk

Interesting that Marlowe admitted that he was not in the right place on the INT he ended getting and that he just tried to make the best of a bad situation... Worked out pretty well in the end, maybe surprising Thompson that he was somewhere he wasn't expected to be...

Hey, TB is still within 4 FGs...they still have a shot.

I swear everytime they bring up something that "hasn't happened since..." It happens right after they bring it up. Brady's NFL record red zone no INTs streak broke tonight right after the put something on the screen about it...if I were teams I would make sure they don't bring up any of this stuff...happens way more than you should expect directly after it's brought it.

Yes, that's what Taylor said in his PC. It makes it unlikely he plays but since he already played with the same injury earlier in the year with a brace, he may try the same thing again.

Seems like that would have been pretty hard to do when this is the first time there has ever been a MNF playoff game. They played Sunday last year. Then played TB Sunday the week after. A normal week.

Apparently against the Ravens in the first meeting this year he had the exact same injury to the other knee and braced it up and played with it next week...MRI will show if there is any other damage tho...might not be able to do it this time. Was reading the Bengals board and they said he was not very good while he was braced up.

Which is exactly what I said...the NFL schedules the Bills in these slots to ensure big ratings when they have slots that get worse ratings in the playoffs...same thing happened last year too.

You realize McKenzie had a hamstring injury and was DNP Thursday and limited Friday and was listed as Questionable right? Philips was listed as Questionable as well and didn't play either...was there some sort of conspiracy with that too? I thought Beasley made some key plays and scored a TD...or were you still too up in arms to notice that?

Man what ever happened to Gio Bernard? He had 3 straight years with 1000+ yards from scrimmage and then fell off a cliff... Now he is relegated to special teams coverage??

Not really. That will still be a normal week. KC/JAX will simply have an extra rest day. This will be a short week having played on a Monday night, getting only 6 days of rest AND having to travel again on top of it to play an opponent who played Saturday and will have 8 days in between games.

I'm kinda irritated how the winner of this game is getting absolutely hosed by the NFL, playing in SF on a short week after SF gets an extra rest day while being at home. Total screw over by the NFL. What's the point of making things "fair" with start times in week 18 if you are just going to screw a team over in the playoffs?

So I just read there was a play clock issue the whole game where it was off for 4 seconds? I thought it was the game clock that was off 4 seconds.

Typically you get an extra second or so from the official watching the clock because they have to look and see if the ball has been snapped. If it's being snapped at that moment you don't get called even tho it's technically delay of game.

As far as I know it's when a clear and obvious reversal is seen. Simply eliminating the ground causing an incompletion once you have possession and two feet down going out of bounds would help enough in this regard.

A few were good pass breakups by the Bills DBs that most are calling drops.

We averaged 3 punts a game same as last year. For a while we were on pace to set the NFL record for fewest punts

I would find it hard to believe a player could player 7 days after dislocating a kneecap. Considered a 3-6 week recovery time. Apparently it's the second time this year he has had the same injury.

Looks like Jonah Williams is not playing...Zac Taylor confirmed it's a dislocated kneecap and both him and their starting guard Cappa were termed week to week...in McD land that means out for the next game.

Yes...I haven't seen it before from them. It was a brilliant wrinkle from them. Again, it is at times. There are also times he still kills teams with them. I think it depends on the team. Bills also have done far fewer designed runs it seems this year.

If awful means 7th best in the NFL(6th if you include the playoff game), then yeah, I guess we are awful. What it says more tho is that OP likely doesn't watch very many other games so he has no comparison point

This doesn't add up. The Bills finished 7th in the NFL on 3rd down defense this year. Opponents converted 37.5% against them. It's seems hard to be 7th in the NFL based on the splits you gave. Unless opponents were in 3rd and 4-6 a lot more often than the other distances. Do you have the number of times for each?

Probably just you since the Bills finished 7th in the NFL on 3rd down percentage. Also the Fins were 4 of 16 on 3rd downs so I am not sure why you would post this after one of the worst 3rd down performances by an opponent of the year.

And then have 10 minutes of "stoppage" time added on each half.

They had 2 first downs in the second half.

He will not realize it because most of the checkdowns were his legs. Once again, not sure how many times it has to be said. Allen had gaping holes to run through and 20+ yards easily several times. The Fins almost baited him into it and then shut the hole as he tried to run through it. At least 3 of their "sacks" were him trying to run up the middle and pick up huge yards. That was the old Daboll move against heavy man coverage teams. Everyone go deep, no checkdowns, Allen takes off and gets huge chunks. Fins were ready for it, credit to them.